Exiled: With My Family Full of Old and Young, I Use My Skills to Help Us Thrive

[Alternate Setting + Farming and Infrastructure + Lighthearted Daily Life + Everyone Turns Their Life Around + No Awful Characters]

After transmigrating to the Great Qian dynasty, Pei Yuan became a lowborn artisan exiled in another man’s place. His family had nothing, he was deep in debt, and the only people by his side were a blind old man, a mute younger sister, and a bookish younger brother who kept failing the imperial exams.

A hellish start? No need to panic: the [Heavenly Crafts Compendium] has awakened!

He turned useless, foul-smelling black rocks into briquettes that cornered the capital’s market; purified toxic brine into fine white salt that he sold across the land; and transformed mountainsides full of scratchy wild hemp into soft cloth fit for the finest silk.

He only meant to earn a little money and enjoy a comfortable life with a wife and children. Who knew that, before long

The blind old man would become the Great Qian’s foremost master of mechanical arts!

The mute younger sister would become the empress of the world’s merchant guild, whose wealth rivaled that of a nation!

The bookish younger brother would become a Legalist scholar whose name would live on for generations!

Years later, the emperor of Great Qian arrived at a humble country courtyard with his officials and bowed in greeting. “Though you never served at court, your inventions and methods have saved countless lives. Please accept my bow!”